The tree I was referring to is on fairly rich soil, so I agree it's not an apples to apples comparison. And if you can see the same lower limb branching in the photos than case closed.
On Jul 29, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Barry Caselli wrote: > Thank you for one more attempt. I didn't even expect anyone to try > counting in the center where the rotted wood is. > As for the age of the tree, it's a well-known fact that all the old > trees around the Batsto Mansion were there and were large back when > Joseph Wharton lived there. They looked almost the same as they do > now. He moved in in the 1870s. His photos clearly show the same > trees. Anyway, I thought it would be neat to actually count the > rings. Maybe someone in the park service will shave off a layer of > the stump for me. I don't know. A fresh cut would make it a lot > easier. > I was just thinking that with the poor soil on the site, the rings > would be very narrow. Great age is possible. The soil there is very > gravelly. Most pine barrens soil is either sandy or gravelly anyway. > Barry > > --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Randy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Randy Brown <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: giant Buttonwood, pt. 2- the stump > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 7:17 PM > > I loaded it into an image editor so I could zoom into it and made a > dodgy effort. I got ~117 clear rings I marked with red dots. But > like lee said the rotted area is a real head scratcher. The wood is > clearly separating along annual rings. The question is wether it's > separated along -every- annual ring or just some of them. > > We had a similar sized sycamore tree in the town where I grew up > that they said was planted in the 1880s. I measured it last year ~ > 15' cbh x 108' tall. So it's not impossible > the tree grew up since the historic picture was taken. Anyway I > attached the picture so you all can see how far out to lunch I am: > > <DSC02827-c2.jpg> > > On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Barry Caselli wrote: > >> Okay folks. Here's the high-rez photo of part of the stump. It goes >> from the edge to the center. If anyone feels like attempting to >> count rings, be my guest. It may or may not be possible. I realize >> the wood is degraded in the center, and rings can't be counted >> there at all. >> See part the post immediately before this for what the tree looked >> like. >> Thanks, >> Barry >> >> >> >> <DSC02827.JPG> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
